To get to the National Railway Museum from
York Station you cross the footbridge across all the platforms, lower
right in the picture above, and beneath the magnificent iron girder structure of
the roof of York Station (more station pictures).

A handsome pair of huge
locomotive driving wheels greet you at the side entrance to the National
Railway Museum York!

All around the turntable at National
Railway Museum York

Wonderful nostalgia for some of us, and still
magical even for the very young!

At the centre of the museum is the great
turntable of the Great Hall surrounded by a super array of steam, diesel and electric
locomotives from the last 150+ years

York NRM
has regular exhibitions of particular railway topics

A railway hospital coach for wounded soldiers in WW I

The FLYING
SCOTSMAN EXHIBITION in 2016

The four
locomotives lined up for the Flying Scotsman Exhibition in York national
Railway Museum.

National Railway
Museum York A 1934 full size replica of the ROCKET,
the 0-2-2 steam locomotive built in 1829 by Stephenson for the famous Rainhill trials of the
Liverpool & Manchester Railway. It was the only competitor to
complete the course and comply with the conditions laid down for the
contest. The replica was built at the works of Robert Stephenson &
Company Ltd, Darlington in 1934.

The ROCKET is lined up with
its fastest successor! namely LNER's MALLARD 4-6-2 pacific locomotive at
the National Railway Museum York.

THE AGENORIA 0-4-0 built by
the Foster Rastrick & Co. Stourbridge 1829, in the National Railway
Museum York

Year 1846 No 3 COPPERNOB

National Railway
Museum York Furness Railway engine
No 3 COPPERNOB was built by Bury, Curtis & Kennedy, Liverpool, Merseyside
in 1846 and worked in the mining and heavy industries around Barrow in
North-west England.

A full size replica of IRON DUKE
in the National Railway Museum York,
built in 1985! but the original was a broad gauge Great Western Railway
(GWR) 4-2-2 locomotive in 1847 designed by Daniel Gooch.
Unfortunately the 7' 0¼" gauge in 1892 and that was the end of the line
for such locomotives!

Year 1865 narrow gauge
locomotive PET

National Railway
Museum York The Crewe Works PET is a
small 0-4-0 18 inch narrow gauge locomotive that spent its 64 year
working life from 1865 to 1929 moving railway parts and materials around
the maze of foundries, boiler shops and wheeling sheds of London & North
Western Railway's Crewe Locomotive and Carriage Works. Its small size
allowed easy access to all parts of the works!

National Railway
Museum York exhibit London North Eastern Railway
(LNER) locomotive No 66 AEROLITE. This NER Class X1 2-2-4T was
originally built in 1869 as a 2-2-2WT and rebuilt at Gateshead Works in
1892 as a 4-2-2T and rebuilt again 2-2-4T and used to pull inspections
saloons trains.

"Conserved but not restored" sums up this
funny little Hebburn Works 0-4-0 industrial saddle tank engine built in 1874 by Black
Hawthorn & Co. Ltd. of Gateshead. Many visitors might not even notice it
but Bauxite No 2 worked in an aluminium smelting plant until 1947
pushing wagons of bauxite rock into aluminium smelters. The NRM look
after it, but it has never been repainted. This grimy little loco was
(to quote from the information board), "the Victorian equivalent of a
forklift truck" and many similar small industrial 19th century
locomotives spent their life moving materials around factories, quarries
and docks etc., pictured in the National Railway Museum York.

214 GLADSTONE belongs to
Class B1 "Gladstones" 0-4-2 express locomotives built between 1882 and
1891 by Stroudly for the LBSCR (London, Brighton & South Coast Railway).
A very impressive emblem on the front of the locomotive, pictured in the
National Railway Museum York..

A wonderful old
Victorian railway carriage, pictured in the National Railway Museum York.

The Pullman coach TOPAZ, contrast with above!,
pictured in the National Railway Museum York.

There are lots of other items apart from steam locomotives and
diesel locomotives e.g. a variety of wagons, carriages and a large
steam driven breakdown crane built at Stratford Works in London in
1926, pictured in the National Railway Museum York..

Some lovely Victorian
stained glass from Chesterfield Station on the Midland Railway, pictured
in the National Railway Museum York..

A fine collection of number and name plates
including:- 71000, CUDWORTH, KING UTHER, YORKSHIRE, SILVER LINK,
VISCOUNT RIDLEY, SILVER FOX complete with an emblem of a silver fox!,
pictured in the National Railway Museum York.

A London and North Eastern Railway Company
poster advertising LNER trains to Edinburgh in Scotland via the East
Coast mainline service, pictured in the National Railway Museum York.

On display in the York NRM is special carriage No. 902502 built by
the North Eastern Railway in 1906 and after 1923 continued to be used by
the LNER and from 1948 to 1951 by British Railways. This is a
dynamometer car which is coupled directly behind the locomotive to
record its performance. It was used to record the world beating record
speed performance of the steam locomotive MALLARD in July 1938.